On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Terry Reedy <[email protected]> wrote: > http://bugs.python.org/issue19562 > propose to change the first assert in Lib/datetime.py > assert 1 <= month <= 12, month > to > assert 1 <= month <= 12,'month must be in 1..12' > to match the next two asserts out of the *53* in the file. I think that is > the wrong direction of change, but that is not my question here. > > Should stdlib code use assert at all? > > If user input can trigger an assert, then the code should raise a normal > exception that will not disappear with -OO.
May I assert that -OO should instead be killed? _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com